The Young Farmers of Aude began blocking the port of Port-la-Nouvelle early Wednesday morning. Around fifty members of this union, the majority within the alliance with the National Federation of Farmers' Unions (FNSEA), came with around ten tractors. This port is the third French port on the Mediterranean. Located about fifty kilometers north of Perpignan (Pyrénées-Orientales), it houses an oil depot.
“Our department is experiencing a terrible drought. We are asking that crop insurance be remodeled and an emergency fund to get through the year,” explains Loïc Escourrou, president of the Young Farmers of Aude union. These farmers are mainly wine growers, facing a catastrophic crisis.
They set up their camp by writing on the asphalt “Genevard only lies”, in reference to the Minister of Agriculture, who came to the department at the beginning of November to announce the deployment of tools to support farmers' cash flow, widely considered insufficient by the latter.
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The blockage should be lifted by midday. A major mobilization of the wine world announced in Carcassonne on Saturday.
